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USA

Trump dismisses reports of Russian meddling

The US President-elect says he does not believe reports that intelligence agencies concluded Russia intervened in the presidential election on his behalf.

11/12/2016

USA

Obama orders review into cyber attacks on presidential election

US President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks on the 2016 elections.

10/12/2016

Germany

Deutsche Telekom 'hack' affects nearly a million customers

Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany had their broadband service cut off following a hack-attack on its hardware.

29/11/2016

USA

Hack means San Francisco travels for free

Commuters in the San Francisco Bay area were able to travel for free after hackers hit the network.

28/11/2016

Europe News

Hackers target European Commission

Hackers have targeted the European Commission’s computer network – trying to overload and crash it.

25/11/2016

USA

Who broke the internet? CIA and FBI scramble to find authors of massive cyberattack

A huge cyberattack in America and Europe takes many vital or household internet names offline for several hours.

22/10/2016

Focus

Dutch technology to protect internet devices from hacking

How can we protect electronic devices from hacking?

19/10/2016

Czech Republic

Russian man held by Czech police over 'hacking aimed at US'

Police in the Czech Republic have released video footage of a Russian man’s arrest in connection with hacking attacks on targets in the United States.

19/10/2016

World News

Yahoo "complies with NSA and FBI requests to scan customers' emails" - reports

Yahoo is said to have built a custom-made software program to scan all of its clients’ incoming emails on behalf of the US government.

04/10/2016

USA

Yahoo - is this the world's biggest cyber security breach?

Yahoo! Inc says information was stolen from at least 500 million user accounts in 2014 by what is believes was a "state-sponsored actor".

22/09/2016

World News

World anti-doping agency confirms second leak of athlete records

15/09/2016

Sport

US athletes confidential medical records leaked following hack of WADA database

A group of Russian hackers calling themselves ‘Fancy Bears’ on Tuesday leaked confidential medical files of some US athletes, including four time Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles and te

13/09/2016

Sri Lanka

Teenager hacked president's website to delay exams

How many of us have despaired as exams approach, wishing we could press an imaginary ‘pause button’ to freeze time and delay the inevitable?

30/08/2016

USA

Trump calls on Russia to hack Clinton's emails

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has just invited Russia to spy on his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

27/07/2016

USA

MySpace and Tumblr hacked

Your old profile on one of the first social media networks may have been hacked.

01/06/2016

USA

FBI paid over $1 million to unlock San Bernardino iphone

The FBI is estimated to have paid more than $1.3 million to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers The figure, the largest ever

22/04/2016

Cinema

Killer Kevin Costner gets someone else's memories in "Criminal"

Death row inmate Kevin Costner gets a memory implant in “Criminal”, not to remember how to make a hit movie again, but as a sort of hard disc for a

12/04/2016

Lithuania

Crimean Tartar event hit by cyber attack in Lithuania

Lithuania’s parliamentary website came under cyber attack on Monday just as a special session of the World Congress of Crimean Tartars was meeting to

11/04/2016

Turkey

Turkey probes leak of 50 million people's data

Turkey is investigating how hackers managed to post online the personal data of nearly 50 million people, or two-thirds of the population. It is

06/04/2016

Turkey

Turkey: personal data of 50 million citizens leaked online, hackers claim

Turkey has launched an investigation into an alleged leak of the personal data of almost 50 million citizens. The information is said to have been

06/04/2016